RHBA-2007:0620 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated rpm packages that fix various issues are now available.

Description

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command-line driven package
management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying,
and updating software packages.

Bugs fixed in these updated packages include:

• multiple versions of a package that do not conflict may be installed

using rpm -i.

• a segmentation fault when %_rpmlock_path is not defined has been fixed.
• file states are now correctly updated for files that are replaced.
• ordering now groups multilib packages together, preventing various errors

in scriptlets due to files not being on disk when scriptlets execute.

• macro compatibility links for ia32e platform are provided.
• previously, ldconfig used %post optimization, which caused errors with

some transactions.

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 211119 - rpmbuild uses wrong macros file
• BZ - 220348 - rpm seems to have bogus multilib optimization
• BZ - 231146 - segmentation fault when %_rpmlock_path is not defined

CVEs

(none)

References

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